Twenty-eight years ago, a sage was buried in the Huiji Mountains in the west of Shaoxing, immortal with the ancient pines, and immortal with the green mountains...... He is the eternal saint Wang Yangming, a super legend who cultivated himself when he was alive and ruled the country and leveled the world, and his thoughts illuminated the eternal after his death.

Yang Minggong's doctrine is called the study of 'conscience', what is conscience? Conscience is the heart, so Wang Xue is also called Xinxue. In Mr. Yang Ming's view, the heart is the source, the heart is everything, everything in the world is the thing in the heart, and everything must be based on the heart. According to the "Biography", Mr. traveled to Nanzhen, and a friend pointed to the flowers and trees in the rocks and asked: "Mr. said 'there is no thing outside the heart in the world', so the flowers and trees, blooming and falling in the deep mountains, what is the relationship with my heart?" The gentleman said, "When you don't see this flower, this flower and your heart will die together." When you look at this flower, the color of this flower is immediately understood. Then you know that this flower is not outside your heart. ”

His mind is indeed imaginative, as brilliant as the starry sky on a summer night, but it is by no means a show-off, nor is it a trick. Because he has enjoyed the glory and wealth of the world, but also suffered from unbearable physical and mental torture, so he can know the various states of the world, understand the warmth and coldness of life, and get rid of all the impetuousness and temptation in the world.

If it stops there, he can only be regarded as a great Confucian like Zhu Xi and Cheng Yi, but he is by no means a sage. The reason why Yang Ming Gong can be called a sage is because he knows that just knowing philosophy and talking all about it is useless except to kill time!

He found that he needed something that could allow him to transform his deepest wisdom into the real act of 'self-cultivation and Qi family ruling the country and leveling the world', so that the study of the mind is not empty talk, and his theory can be truly useful!

In order to achieve this goal, Yang Minggong, who was enlightened, resolutely re-entered the world, and diligently pursued practical verification in the temple, on the battlefield, in the academy, and in heaven and earth, and finally found such a miracle soldier a few years later!

When Wang Yangming mastered and skillfully used it, there was no one in the world who could match it! With such a miracle soldier, he dominates the world, invincible, with his own strength to protect half of the Ming Dynasty, talk and laugh to eliminate hundreds of thousands of troops, achieve brilliant martial arts, and be admired by future generations!

It was also with this divine weapon that he surpassed countless predecessors and entered the realm of sages. And the only one who can reach this state - after Confucius, is Yangming!

The name of this divine weapon is 'Unity of Knowledge and Action'.

'Know' is to understand the truth, and 'action' is to put it into action. For thousands of years, some people think that it is easy to know and difficult to do, and some people think that it is difficult to know and easy to do. For example, Zhu Xi, the 'sage' of physicists, believes that understanding the truth is the most difficult, and it is very simple to put it into action. So the scholars are all poor and do nothing but enlightenment...... Their reasons are also very sufficient, Zhu Shengren said, 'It is easy to know what is difficult and easy to do', and after we are enlightened, it is a piece of cake to do nothing?

But Wang Yangming said: 'No! Knowledge and action are one, and both are important. So the Sanskrit sound was sung, the goddess scattered the flowers, and the sun was sanctified!

What he means is that conscience is as important as deeds, and that conscience should command actions and deeds should prove conscience. If you know it's right, you have to do it, and if you know it's wrong, you can't do it. If you think you are right, but later you find that you are wrong, you must immediately stop correcting it, and you must not let your conscience and behavior go against it, but you must always be the unity of knowledge and action.

Mr. Zeng Kou Zhan's 'Four Decisions of Mind Learning', exhausted the essence of Wang Xue's true meaning, and said:

"There is no goodness and no disgusting body, there is good and malicious action. Knowing good and knowing evil is conscience, and doing evil for good is a thing. ”

It means that everything in the world comes from the heart, the mind is in the world, and the mind is not in the world. All people are born with a pure heart, and at first they have no thoughts of good and evil, right and wrong; When this childlike heart enters the rolling red dust, it is disturbed by the world, and there are good thoughts and evil thoughts; Being able to distinguish between what is good and what is evil, what is right and what is wrong, is conscience; To be able to always uphold one's conscience in action is the truth and the way of the sages.

This frank and lively, truthful and practical Yangming Xinxue, like a ray of warm sunshine, illuminates this society that is lively day by day, but is shrouded in the haze of science, which makes people excited, so that countless elite scholars abandon the hypocritical and outdated Cheng Zhu Lixue, bow down to his door, and are willing to accept the baptism of Xinxue again.

For a time, all the academies in the world were proud to teach Yangming Xinxue, the most famous of which was Jishan Academy, which was founded by Yangming Gong, as well as Bailudong Academy and Yuelu Academy, which were among the four major academies, also became a big forum for preaching Xinxue.

Seeing the gradual rise of the trend of Xinxue, the official authority Cheng Zhu Lixue finally could not tolerate it, and in their view, Wang Shouren's 'heresy' was like a flood of beasts, which would sweep away all norms and order, and sweep away their pride and status into the latrine.

So in the early years of Jiajing, Yang Yiqing, Gui Cao and others, who held the power of the country, began to plot to attack Wang Yangming. Unexpectedly, just after talking about the emperor, the news of Yangming's death in Nan'an came. Supposedly, it's time for you two to stop, right?

That's impossible, because the study of the mind is still there, and the people of Wang Xuemen are still listed above the court and around His Majesty...... Gui Cao said: 'Even if he dies, I will join him in leaving his post without permission and making indiscriminate military exploits in Jiangxi. He wants to completely deny Yang Ming's military exploits.

Yang Yiqing, on the other hand, wanted to completely deny Yang Ming Xinxue ideologically, saying: "Even if he dies, I will persuade the Holy Lord to ban his new learning." If it is not banned, the Ming Dynasty will have to die on these heresies. They proposed a meeting and purgeed it.

Wang Xuemen naturally wanted to rise up to resist, but his doctrine was not as pleasing to the emperor as Cheng Zhu Lixue, so Emperor Jiajing finally chose the science that was conducive to the rule of his Zhu family after repeated observations, so Wang Xuemen people went into the wilderness, and the scholars of science achieved the first victory - in the sixteenth year of Jiajing, the emperor ordered the destruction of the world's private academies with the "academy advocating evil learning".

In the seventeenth year of Jiajing, Yan Song, then the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, figured out his intentions, opposed free lectures, and destroyed the world's academies under the pretext that the academy consumed money and disturbed the people.

However, this time is different from the past, with the development of the times, the Ming Dynasty is no longer only the official of the imperial court, but also the private market, and those scholars in the opposition also have considerable influence - since Wang Xue was overwhelmed for a while, we will give lectures in private, secretly accumulate strength, and when the time is ripe, we will wrestle with you again.

This painting boat on Jianhu Lake is a mobile classroom established by Wang Yangming's two disciples after Jishan Academy was destroyed.

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This is a very important chapter, and one of the three main threads that run through the book. However, this book is a story book, not a philosophy book, so I will only briefly talk about what the science of mind is and its relationship with science, and I will not discuss it in depth. Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't understand what Yangming Mind is, just treat them as an opposition political group......